Tag: Sanctuary of the Arts
From ancestral rhythms to Benny Moré, Coral Gables concert traces Cuba’s musical story
Cuban music has always been a conversation among continents, and a Saturday night program in Coral Gables sets out to follow that conversation from its deepest roots to some of…
Grammy winner Aymée Nuviola brings ‘90 Millas’ to Sanctuary of the Arts
Aymée Nuviola comes to Coral Gables on Saturday, Sept. 26 with a concert built around a number that carries particular weight in South Florida: 90. That is the roughly 90…
Mediterranean music meets aerial acrobatics at Sanctuary of the Arts
Aerialists, dancers and musicians will fill a converted Coral Gables church on Tuesday, Sept. 22 as Les Ailes du Désir Foundation returns with a Mediterranean-themed edition of its long-running Soirée…
Latin Grammy-nominated drummer Nomar Negroni leads a night of jazz standards
By Coral Gables Gazette staff Nomar Negroni has spent more than two decades behind the drum kit alongside his father in one of Puerto Rico’s better-known Latin jazz ensembles. On…
Dohnanyi and Dvorak close South Florida Symphony’s summer series
By Coral Gables Gazette staff South Florida Symphony Orchestra brings its Summer with the Symphony chamber music series to a close this week with Sweet Serenade, a program pairing Ernő…
From Bach to the Beatles, Boyd Meets Girl brings cello-guitar chemistry to Coral Gables
By Coral Gables Gazette staff The cello and the classical guitar do not, on paper, seem like obvious partners. One sustains and sings; the other speaks in plucked, decaying notes…
Miami City Ballet Orchestra steps out of the pit and onto the stage for three nights in Coral Gables
By Coral Gables Gazette staff For the entirety of its existence, the Miami City Ballet Orchestra has done its work in the dark — in the pit, beneath the stage,…
A dance built on extinction’s loneliest song arrives at the Sanctuary of the Arts
By Coral Gables Gazette staff In 1987, on the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi, a researcher named David Boynton made a sound recording in the Alakaʻi Wilderness Preserve. What he captured…
A Cuban ballet tradition in exile takes the stage at Sanctuary of the Arts
By Coral Gables Gazette staff When Ernesto Lecuona died in the Canary Islands in 1963, his will contained an instruction that said more about the man than almost anything else…
A tribute to 1950s Cuban music comes to Coral Gables Saturday
By Coral Gables Gazette staff Before the revolution ended it, before the diaspora scattered it across New York and Miami and Mexico City, there was a moment when Havana was…
